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JANE AND THE GHOSTS OF NETLEY: Being A Jane Austen Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh in this delightful series with Jane Austen using her keen powers of observation to helping avert a threat to England during the Napoleonic wars. Editor's afterword. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. Dust jacket art by Kimiko Y. Craft. ISBN: 0-553-802224.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 51435More details Price: $28.50 -
JANE AND THE GHOSTS OF NETLEY: Being A Jane Austen Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh in this delightful series with Jane Austen using her keen powers of observation to helping avert a threat to England during the Napoleonic wars. Editor's afterword. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. Dust jacket art by Kimiko Y. Craft. ISBN: 0-553-802224.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77141More details Price: $32.50 -
JANE AND THE PRISONER OF WOOL HOUSE: Being The Sixth Jane Austen Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth in this delightful series with Jane Austen using her wit and family ties to the Royal Navy to solve a murder on the high seas. SIGNED on the title page. Editor's foreword. ix, 294 pp. Dust jacket art by Kimiko Y. Craft. ISBN: 0-553-802224.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75334More details Price: $30.00 -
JANE AND THE BARQUE OF FRAILITY: Being a Jane Austen Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The ninth in this delightful series with Jane Austen using her wit to save herself and her sister from being convicted of the murder of a minister. Editor's afterword. SIGNED on the title page. 297 pp. Dust jacket art by Kimiko Y. Craft. ISBN: 0-553-82267.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (comment inked on front endpaper)
Book ID: 72364More details Price: $28.50 -
JANE AND THE BARQUE OF FRAILITY: Being a Jane Austen Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The ninth in this delightful series with Jane Austen using her wit to save herself and her sister from being convicted of the murder of a minister. Editor's afterword. SIGNED on the title page. 297 pp. Dust jacket art by Kimiko Y. Craft. ISBN: 0-553-82267.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 77315More details Price: $31.50 -
JANE AND THE PRISONER OF WOOL HOUSE: Being The Sixth Jane Austen Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth in this delightful series with Jane Austen using her wit and family ties to the Royal Navy to solve a murder on the high seas. Editor's foreword. SIGNED on the title page. ix, 294 pp. Dust jacket art by Kimiko Y. Craft. ISBN: 0-553-802224.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 77140More details Price: $32.50 -
JANE AND THE PRISONER OF WOOL HOUSE: Being The Sixth Jane Austen Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth in this delightful series with Jane Austen using her wit and family ties to the Royal Navy to solve a murder on the high seas. Editor's foreword. SIGNED on the title page. ix, 294 pp. Dust jacket art by Kimiko Y. Craft. ISBN: 0-553-802224.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 62126More details Price: $30.00 -
SHARPE'S TRAFALGAR: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21st, 1805 (Spain 1803.)
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2001). First edition - One (the 4th chronologically) in a highly praised - - and very popular - series of novels featuring Richard Sharpe, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Historical note. 293 pp. Other titles in this series available.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue. Publisher's letter laid in.
Book ID: 63195More details Price: $28.50 -
SHARPE'S TRIUMPH: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803 (India 1803.)
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1998.) dj. Hardcover - One in a highly praised - - and very popular - series of novels featuring Richard Sharpe, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Map. Historical note. 291 pp. Other titles in this series available. ISBN: 0-06-101270x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62102More details Price: $16.50 -
POWDER MONKEY: The Adventures of Sam Witchall.
Edition: First printing.
London: Bloomsbury, (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars. The adventures of a 14 year old boy forced to join the British Royal Navy, where he is told he will be a powder monkey on board - that is, he will carry the powder from the barrels to the men standing by the cannons on deck. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Small illustrations at the head of each chapter, illustrated endpapers with a drawing of the Frigate Miranda. 276 pp plus notes on sources. ISBN: 0-747577048.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73337More details Price: $35.00 -
VICTORY OF EAGLES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth novel in the epic fantasy series featuring "the noble fighting dragon Temeraire and his master and commander, Capt. Will Laurence, who serves BritainÕs peerless Aerial Corps in the thick of the raging Napoleonic Wars." 332 pp. ISBN: 0-345-496881.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 57783More details Price: $14.50 -
TONGUES OF SERPENTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth novel in the epic fantasy series featuring "the noble fighting dragon Temeraire and his master and commander, Capt. Will Laurence, who serves BritainÕs peerless Aerial Corps in the thick of the raging Napoleonic Wars." 332 pp. ISBN: 978-0345496898.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71974More details Price: $16.50 -
VICTORY OF EAGLES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth novel in the epic fantasy series featuring "the noble fighting dragon Temeraire and his master and commander, Capt. Will Laurence, who serves BritainÕs peerless Aerial Corps in the thick of the raging Napoleonic Wars." 332 pp. ISBN: 0-345-496881.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47560More details Price: $20.00 -
HIS MAJESTY'S DRAGON (Special Preview.)
Edition: Preview copy,
New York: Ballantine, (2006.). First edition - Special small preview booklet with an excerpt from the first book in a unusual historical fantasy series - this introduces the remarkable dragon Temeraire and his heroic captain, Will Laurence, who are thrust into the world of the Aerial Corps, offering aerial support to the British during the Napoleonic Wars. Praise from writers ranging from Stephen King to Terry Brooks, Anne McCaffrey, David Feintuch and others. 30 pp.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in stapled illustrated wrappers. An uncommon piece of promotional ephemera.
Book ID: 45427More details Price: $13.50 -
MASTER AND COMMANDER
Edition: Paperback.
London: Fontana / Collins, (1982). The first book in the Aubrey - Maturin series. A vivid picture of life on a man-of-war in Nelson's navy during the Napoleonic wars. 350 pp. ISBN: 0-00-6166261.
Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 80483More details Price: $9.50 -
COMMAND.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 70752More details Price: $50.00 -
KYDD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2001.). First edition - The first in the series of swashbuckling adventures featuring Thomas Paine Kydd, a wig-maker, from Guildford in England who in 1793 is pressed into service aboard the 98-gun, line-of-battle ship Duke William, and who comes of age in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. 254 pp..
Condition: Fine in glossy ilustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 36088More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ROYAL GREEEN JACKETS (Osprey Men-at-Arms series)
Edition: First printing.
London: Osprey Publishing, (1977.). First edition - A study of this British regiment from its service in the French and Indian war in North America through the Napoleonic Wars, the Great War and World War II. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and reproductions of old engravings and drawings, plus a section of eight full color plates by MIchael Roffe. First edition of this early title in the "Men-at-Arms Series" a very high quality, accurate and attractively produced and well-illustrated series of slightly oversized, but slim, trade paperbacks, measuring 7 1/4 inches wide by 9 3/4 inches tall, bound in glossy illustrated white covers (heavy cardstock) and printed on good quality paper. Select bibliography, Notes. 40 pp. Uncommon in the first printing. ISBN: 0-85045249X.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff glossy pictorial wrappers (covers creamy rather than white.)
Book ID: 37730More details Price: $30.00 -
THE TEMPTATION OF THE NIGHT JASMINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth book in the Pink Carnations series, a "lighthearted, romantic and suspenseful novel about the most elusive spy of all time." A fun book to read, a combination of chick lit and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Author's historical note. 388 pp. ISBN: 9780525950967.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56310More details Price: $18.00 -
THE DECEPTION OF THE EMERALD RING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third book in this series involving grad student Eloise Kelly, who is researching the secret identity of England's master spy during the Napoleonic Wars. A fun book to read, a combination of chick lit and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Author's historical note. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-525-949771.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56246More details Price: $18.00 -
THE MASK OF THE BLACK TULIP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book in this series involving grad student Eloise Kelly, who in the first book discovered the secret identity of England's master spy during the Napoleonic Wars, the Pink Carnation, and in this one, she is once unearthing clues about the Pink Carnation's nemesis, the French spy known as the Black Tulip. A fun book to read, a combination of chick lit and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Author's historical note. 406 pp. ISBN: 0-525-949208.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 51150More details Price: $18.00 -
THE MASK OF THE BLACK TULIP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book in this series involving grad student Eloise Kelly, who in the first book discovered the secret identity of England's master spy during the Napoleonic Wars, the Pink Carnation, and in this one, she is once unearthing clues about the Pink Carnation's nemesis, the French spy known as the Black Tulip. A fun book to read, a combination of chick lit and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Author's historical note. 406 pp. ISBN: 0-525-949208.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 44955More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MISCHIEF OF THE MISTLETOE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book in the Pink Carnations series, a "lighthearted, romantic and suspenseful novel about the most elusive spy of all time." A fun book to read, a combination of chick lit and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Recipes, author's historical note. 339 pp. ISBN: 978-0525951872.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87118More details Price: $18.00